Adobe Community: Message List - Deleting, archiving, changing the world ?

Re: Deleting, archiving, changing the world ?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:40:13 GMT

If you're not wild about the terms used in the viewer you can change all of them when you build your own app for submitting to the app store.

In App Builder on the App Details page open the advanced options section. Click the button to export a template file and you'll get an XML document with every string in every language used by the viewer. Change whatever you like, build your app, and voila. Whatever words you like for your specific readers.

Neil

Re: Deleting, archiving, changing the world ?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 02:08:08 GMT

End users who download the folios do not like 'Deleting' their downloaded issues and it gives an impression that they cannot get the issue back after deleting, thus it's called 'Archiving' in the App or Content Viewer which somewhat conveys "If you delete it, you can always get it back".

Deleting, archiving, changing the world ?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 17:23:04 GMT

Dear developers, what are you doing ? In Adobe Creative Cloud (web view) "Deleting" turns out to be a kind of "Archiving" and in Adobe Viewer on iPad (for Digital Publishing) "Archiving" can mean "Deleting". Are you mad ? I know you want to "change the world", but by all means: try to stick to the basic concepts we already have in our human languages...

Why not just describe what happens, in stead of confusing users and explaining afterwards (in stupid ways) that I should regard the wording in this or that way. In Creative Cloud (web view) use the description: "Move to Trash". And in Adobe Viewer it should read "Delete from device". How simpler can it be ?

(I'll cross-post this as well in the CC forum.)